New chats from the AI · Chats that message each other · Reports back
Chats can now work as a team: Velork AI hands a task to a new chat of its own, the chats message each other, and each started chat reports back when it finishes. You can also send a working chat a message without stopping it. Chat answers stream in more smoothly, images read as images, and sign-in in the browser lands in the app even across network blips and sleep.
New
- New chats from the AI: when part of the work is a task of its own, Velork AI offers it on a card: Do it here, or New chat to start it in its own chat with a brief. A new chat can start fresh or carry this chat's conversation (and its images) with it, and can start in the background without switching to it. Ideas for later work show as cards you can start or dismiss any time
- Chats that message each other: a chat and the chats it started can send each other messages. A busy chat gets the message when its current turn ends
- Reports back: when a started chat finishes its turn, its answer comes back to the chat it came from as a report, so the first chat can carry on with the result without checking in. Messages from another chat show as "From <chat>", and each card shows whether its chat is working or done
- No runaway loops: a chat takes at most 5 turns in a row from other chats' messages; after that, messages wait until you write in it
- Send without stopping: a queued message can be sent to the working AI without stopping it; it reads it after its current step ("You: ... ✓✓" in the answer). If the turn ends first it goes as your next message
- Quote in reply: a message's menu puts the text, or the part you selected, in the composer as a quote
Improvements
- Smoother streaming: answers fade in word by word, and new lines glide up instead of jumping; scrolling up stops following and scrolling back to the bottom picks it up again
- Images read as images: the AI reads image files you point it at as pictures (large ones scaled down), not as file bytes
- Usage under each answer: one quiet line with the model, tokens and cost, and the details in a card from it
- Screenshot thumbnails: each keeps its own shape (wide screens wide, phones tall) with Copy and Save image on right-click
- To-do list: redrawn, and stays open or closed as you left it
- Folders list: Open Folder and Add SSH host stay pinned under the list
- Still working dialog: names the chat by its title
Fixes
- Browser sign-in lands in the app: waiting for the browser survives network blips, server restarts and the laptop sleeping; one sign-in attempt at a time, with plain messages when something goes wrong
- Windows and Linux on Arm: native arm64 builds again. The arm64 downloads had been handing out 0.2.1, and arm64 installs never updated; they now update to this release
- Better sign-in and install insight: the app reports each sign-in step and leaving the first-run screens, so we can see and fix where people get stuck (only when telemetry is on)